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Art & Poster Contest

Theme:
The Making of the Constitution:
Debate, Compromise, Adoption and Signing.

Essay Contest

Grades 3-5 Theme:
In the summer of 1787, fifty-five of the "best and brightest" leaders came together to write a new plan of government for the United States. We call them our nation's Founding Fathers.

Which Founding Father do you believe contributed the most to our U.S. Constitution? Why? (Founding Fathers listed below)

Grades 6-12 Theme:
The Making of the Constitution for the Purpose of Promoting the Common Good.

Founding Fathers

Connecticut
Oliver Ellsworth
William Samuel Johnson
Roger Sherman

Delaware
Richard Bassett
Gunning Bedford, Jr.
Jacob Broom
John Dickinson
George Read

Georgia
Abraham Baldwin
William Few
William Houston
William Pierce

Maryland
Daniel Carroll
Luther Martin
James McHenry
John F. Mercer
Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer

Massachusetts
Elbridge Gerry
Nathaniel Gorham
Rufus King
Caleb Strong

New Hampshire
Nicholas Gilman
John Langdon

New Jersey
David Brearly
Jonathan Dayton
William C. Houston
William Livingston
William Paterson

New York
Alexander Hamilton
John Lansing, JR.
Robert Yates

North Carolina
William Blount
William Davie
Richard Dobbs Spaight
Alexander Martin
Hugh Williamson

Pennsylvania
George Clymer
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Fitzsimons
Jared Ingersoll
Thomas Mifflin
Gouverneur Morris
Robert Morris

South Carolina
Pierce Butler
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Charles Pinckney
John Rutledge

Virginia
John Blair
James Madison Jr.
George Mason
James McClurg
Edmund Randolph
George Wythe